This is a first for me to play along with a Papertrey Ink blog hop, but couldn't resist when I got an early sneak peek at this month's gorgeous inspiration photo! I was primarily inspired by the colors, the florals and the textures. Here is what I came up with...
I watercolored the background using Picked Raspberry and Peeled Paint distress inks. I wanted to use the largest Circle Scribbles die to give the illusion of a wreath that was topped off by some Bitty Bouquets. The sentiment - also from Bitty Bouquets stamp set - was black embossed on a vellum die cut flag.
Tiny Tip: I used a yellow marker to add some highlights to the tulips and leaves. When I first began my stamping journey many, many years ago, my first SU demonstrator pointed out that real life flowers and leaves often have a hint of yellow in their coloring and recommended we add yellow highlights to our stamped images.
I'm playing along with the current CAS(E) This Sketch Challenge! All of the horizontal lines led me to try the overlapping stamping technique using a solid line stamp that Jennifer McGuire recently demonstrated in a tutorial HERE. I used 4 colors from WPlus9's Pure Color dye inks: Little Piggy, Wild Mango, Beanstalk, and Bo Peep. The images were all stamped with Versamark and heat embossed using Stampendous' Detail White Opaque embossing powder. I went with this older MFT Timeless set...stamping the sentiment on vellum. The clock hands were fussy cut from vellum and attached by a mini silver brad. The card base is New Leaf CS by PTI and the line stamp is from Reverse Confetti's So Stripey set.
We are having yet another rainy day here in VA, but I'm OK with that as long as it's not SNOW!! Thanks so much for stopping by...
Welcome to another Color Throwdown Challenge where yours truly is the hostess this week! This photo inspired me to challenge you to use some springtime colors: pink, light green and kraft. After recently buying this Floral and Flutter Bundle from Concord and 9th, I knew right away I wanted to do an emboss resist technique on my card.
I started by white embossing the florals on Ranger watercolor CS, then I watercolored with Picked Raspberry and Twisted Citron distress inks then splattered with a mixture of Antique Linen and Scattered Straw. I'm loving the open floral die that coordinates with this stamp set and adhered only the center with a tiny glue dot so the petals could be slightly curled up! The sentiment is PTI's Wet Paint stamp and die set - cut once in metallic gold and once in kraft CS. The Diagonal Stripe BG stamp is by My Favorite Things and was stamped using a MISTI with Little Piggy ink by WPlus9. It's difficult to get thorough coverage with only one inking on a large background stamp, so the MISTI allows you to do it twice for a crisper image! This card was created for my one DIL who hit the big 30 year birthday milestone last week!
Big congrats to our guest star stamper - Karren Johnson! Be sure and stop by her blog and say hello!
A big THANKS to the uber talented Kay Miller for being our guest designer in February! We'll miss her but will have another great guestie to announce next week...stay tuned!
To get all the details on how to play along, please go to the Color Throwdown blog! You can also check out the rest of the design teams' creations for more inspiration on the CTD blog or you can clink on their links below.
Barbara Anders
Broni Holcombe
Joan Ervin
Jodi Collins
Lisa Henke
Lori Tecler
Lynn Put
Vickie Zimmer
Wanda Cullen (you are here)
Kay Miller - February Guest Designer
Looking
forward to seeing how you use these colors this week!
Happy stamping!
I wanted to play along with the Color Challenge on SCS after seeing Joyce's posting of these lovely spring colors: Wisteria Wonder, Pool Party and Pear Pizzazz with the dessert option to use flowers. I used non-SU colors that were in the same family: Tumbled Glass distress ink for the watercolor BG and Cockleshell and Beanstalk dye inks by WPlus9. I cut three of the 'happy' dies and layered them to give better dimension.
STAMPS: Bitty Bouquets (florals) and Wet Paint (sentiment) by PTI.
PAPER: Sno Cone by MFT; True Black by PTI; Neenah Solar White.
ACCESSORIES: Circle Scribbles die, Wet Paint die, and Bitty Bouquets die by PTI; Stitched rectangle die by Lil' Inker Designs; Sprinkles (lily white) adhesive dots by Doodlebug Design.
It's another rainy day in Virginia, but I'll take that ahead of the white stuff! Have a great day and thanks for stopping by...
A quick CAS card to thank a friend for joining the Young Living oil journey with me! I got inspiration from this rustic room photo for the current The Challenge #61 and used the sketch for Sunday Stamps Challenge #120. Papers are all from Pebbles' Cottage Living 
6x6 pad. The trio of oil bottles is an image by Impression Obsession's Essentially stamp set. Inside the card, it reads "Scent with many thanks!".
Good Monday everyone! It's time for another Mojo Monday Challenge and this one had me going in circles - lol! I went with these fun medallions in Verve's Peaceful Medallions stamp set. I embossed several with Early Espresso, Wild Wasabi and Melon Mambo embossing powders and then just stamped in the same color inks for the remaining ones. I used a splatter stamp from Gorgeous Grunge (SU) to add a little interest to the background. The butterfly was white embossed on vellum, fussy cut and adhered to a die cut Melon Mambo butterfly (All Aflutter by Verve) using a tiny glue dot. As you can see, my card is the drunken version since the circles couldn't "walk" a straight line - hehe.
For more inspiration from the rest of the mojomakers, click on their blog links
below...or...you can go to the Mojo Monday blog and click on the first nine thumbnails.
Carole Burrage
Julee Tilman (Owner)
Justin Krieger
Lori Tecler
Marisa Ritzen
Mary Fish
Sarah Bigelow
Teresa Kline
Wanda Cullen (you are here)
I was inspired by the colorful florals for the current color palette for the Card Concept Challenge and I'm also playing along with the Freshly Made Sketches Challenge - a really fabulous layout brought to us by Jen T. Though the Flourishes stamp company no longer exists, I'm still loving their floral designs and pulled out this Tulips For Friends set. I started with watercoloring the BG using Peacock Feathers and Squeezed Lemonade distress inks. I had this leftover cut file from X-Press It Blending Card paper and stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black ink
before coloring with Copics. The image is popped with foam tape. The striped vellum paper is from SU's Winter Wonderland pack.
I'm recuperating today from a vomiting bug that hit me last
evening. Not a fun night! I'm staying off work today...laying low and trying to get my strength back. Thanks so much for stopping by...
